Couch grass

Agropyrum repens (L.) Pal. - Beaw.

Botanical characteristics. The family is cereal. A perennial herbaceous plant 60-120 cm high. The sturgeon has a very long creeping rhizome, from which numerous thin roots leave. The stem is straight. The leaves are long, linear, regular, light and dark green. Greenish flowers are located on the top of the stem and collected in the inflorescence - a complex ear. Blooms in June-July, the seeds ripen in August-September.

Spread. Malignant weed. It occurs all over Russia.

Used parts of the plant. Rhizomes are grass and grass.
From the rhizomes with shoots, essential oil (0.05%) is isolated, which includes carbon agropyrene, mucous substances (up to 10%), polysaccharide triticin, inulin, inositol, fructose, levulose, nitrogen-containing rubber-like substance (up to 1%).

Application. In scientific medicine rhizome rhizomes are used as a regulating salt exchange, enveloping, expectorant, diaphoretic, laxative, diuretic and blood cleanser, and also as a pill base.
Traditional medicine recommends rhizomes and juice of fresh leaves in ARVI, with bronchitis and pneumonia. Pyrei - a good remedy for diseases associated with a violation of salt metabolism: urolithiasis and cholelithiasis, metabolic arthritis and osteochondrosis. In addition, it is prescribed for dropsy, urethritis and cystitis, with liver diseases.
Preparations of wheatgrass creeping quickly cure furunculosis, help with youthful acne and other skin diseases.
With skin diseases, diathesis, rickets, hemorrhoids, baths from wheatgrass are shown (treatment course is 10-15 baths).
Grass grass is eaten by cats, dogs. It has antihelminthic effect.

Preparation. 2 tablespoons of root in the evening pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist in a thermos. The next day, drink infusion for 3 times minutes for 20-40 before meals in a warm form.
Freshly drunk grass juice extract for 3-4 months for 1 / 2-1 glass 3-4 times a day for 20-40 minutes before meals.
For baths: 150.0 grams of rhizomes boil in 5 liters of water, add cold water and pour into a bath - for dilution to 37 ° C.